Paige, we've got 18 at PebbleBeach here in the simulator. Let's maybe go back to junior golf days. Maybe a tip that you picked when you were a young junior player . A very good junior player , by the way. That you could share with the audience right now. Well, I'm gonna tell them to go left and by go left I mean stand on the left side of the tee box and aim away from the water. I think that was one of the keys. I never really thought about where I was

23 improve your accuracy. A proper release is crucial to a good golfswing . But before we get to the drills Martin, can you answer a crucial question I know many of our viewers have a problem with? What exactly is release?>>Yeah, that's a really good question, I'm glad you asked it. Release is when you speed up and square up the club face coming into the ball. It's getting all the energy you can into the head of the golf club . Now where do you release it? Now there's an interesting question. Had a good conversation with the producer of this show, Brett, about this, and it actually led to this piece we're going to do right now. Cuz he said, wow, I thought release was something after the ball. No. Let me show you something here. I'm gonna go set up to this golf ball , and we're going to go face on. And I would love to have a clock face please, Mr. Director. Thank you so

Right. That's number one. Number two, is to learn to throw the golf ball , half side on, half under arm. Now to do that, first of all I'm gonna give your ball, in your right. I'm actually gonna give you a tee to throw it at. But to get the energy out, I like people to hold in the trail arm, fingertips. I like people to sort of make what might be recognized as a golfswing where the trail arm falls, and as you're coming down I want you to throw that ball as hard as you can

Thank you for joining me at Golf Channel Academy, I'm Fred Shoemaker. This is all about coaching kids. See, when kids go off off a golfcourse , or you go off the golfcourse , what's the question that people ask you? The question is almost always, what'd you shoot? Have you ever walked off a golfcourse . Or have you ever asked your children, what did you learn? To that question about what did you learn, I think that

you're going to ensure that is you're just going to take a sleepingbag I want you to put that right up against the leg, there. And what I want you to imagine is that you're gonna take that sleepingbag and you're just gonna, almost feel like you're gonna make it roll. And as you start to see that roll, now we're

a golf ball, what we want you to do is bring the sleepingbag in here. We're just going to hit this really smoothly. And focusing on making sure we're almost rolling that sleepingbag right there. So in here like this, and then feel that roll. And then come back through there, and you're going to

Chamblee, and it's a real pleasure to take a look at the golfswing of major champion Morgan Pressel, who has a beautiful set up. Just enough knee flex, grip in a very comfortable spot. And,

she plays the ball pretty far back in her stance for a professional golfer . But all of this works out perfectly on the way down. She finds the golf ball, beautifully planned her golfswing , and has a beautiful release. Morgan Pressel is proof that you don't have to be a perfect position at the top to play great golf.

also help to bottom out the curve in the arc of the golfswing . So I like to have it just on the inside of my left big toe. Cuz again, that will help getting the bottom of that golfswing behind the ball. And I'm gonna hit one more, and show you what happens when you don't bottom out. Behind the golf ball . If you bought them out in front of it, let's set up. Like I see a common mistake in drivers, put the ball back in my position, now my sternum is more centered over the golf ball . This is great if I wanna hit it lower. But once you'll see the trails of The golf shots of the drives.

times it's It's just nerves on the first tee. For somebody like TigerWoods whose going through swing change it might be reverting back to old habits. But whatever it is, in practice you wanna simulate that feeling of being on the first And not only did Just, I've made it on the first tee, but you can almost work yourself into an emotional state where you feel the same tension in your practice that you feel when you actually walk up on a hole like 18 at Pebble Beach . 100%. and for someone like me. i'm only playing part time, so I get nervous on the first tee even now. So

these coordinates swirling around them. People who hit the ball really well, JustinRose , Mo Martin, Mo Norman, their club face is what I call very stable, very steady closing. Very gradually through the hitting area. Easy to see with those three additions to the club. It's not sort of flashing around at the bottom. Now let me show something to you, this is a great drill. To simplify what I talked about, the three functions of the wrist. I'm gonna take a coat hanger . And I have used a coat hanger before, but I haven't done this. I'm gonna put the coat hanger on the club. And I'm gonna put it on the club such that when I set up it's touching my trail arm. If we could have a face on here. Yes, it's touching my trail arm. Now I'm going to lift the club up here now, and I'm going to say that you're in the swing, that coat hanger should go from the trail arm to the lead arm. What?! That closes the club face, Martin. Not if you use your

Thank you for joining me in GolfChannel Academy, I'm Fred Shoemaker. Today it's all about power. How do you get the power you body's capable of? Cuz this is a really strange exercise. You're gonna have to find an open fairway were there's no one else. And as you walk out there to do this, take a club. And I literally want you to throw the club down the fairway. Now, they won't let me do it here cuz it's really expensive equipment, but you're going to have to imagine it. Then take the club and throw it a little farther and feel how your body does it. And then take it and throw it a little bit further. Find out what's the maximum power you can get without hurting yourself and feel what your doing. When you walk out there, really let it go. Then experience